SOLIDWORKS Milwaukee Area Resource Team

Welcome to the new SWUGN Community page for the SOLIDWORKS Milwaukee Area Resource Team (SMART)!

Hello to all the SOLIDWORKS users in and around Milwaukee.

This is the new main page where you can keep up to date with SMART's events, as well as a hub where you can participate in chapter-related discussions. Most of what you see here is very similar to what we have had on our Meetup page ever since the SMART user group was re-launched in late 2023.

I'll encourage people to talk about their own …

HYPE YOUR ENHANCEMENT REQUESTS!

Are you using the SOLIDWORKS Enhancement Ideas Community in 3DSwym? If not, I think you should. It's a place where you can post your enhancement requests for others in the user community (and SOLIDWORKS developers) to see.

Ideas posted here that gather likes and comments will catch the attention of SW's product team, which gives us an incentive to tell each other about enhancements that we've po…

SMART User Group Survey

Every year, I try to survey SMART's user group members.

The main goal is just to get a litmus test on people's preferences for upcoming meetings: what topics you're interested in, which days tend work better for your personal schedule, and so on.

This year, I'm particularly interested in considering what people's preferences are for meeting formats: 1-2 long form topics vs. 2-3 shorter topics, pa…

2026 Meeting Planning: Be A Part of SMART

Planning for our 2026 meeting schedule is underway!

I'm holding an open invitation for any SOLIDWORKS-using company to host a meeting in our 2026 schedule. This is a good chance to support our User Group and get your company's name out there among SOLIDWORKS users.

Anyone is welcome to host, but I will be upfront that I intend to award hosts with a preference for companies that either haven't host…